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Baseball offseason, let's get ready for 2014.

Now that the baseball season is over, I mean, let's be realistic, nobody watches baseball outside of the fans of the teams in the playoffs and playoff ratings go down the tubes when the Yankees are not in it.

Interesting conversation I heard today between Alex Anthopoulos and Buck Martinez during the game.

Martinez- Masahiro Tanaka will be one of the most sought after players in the free agent market, will the Blue Jays go after him.

Anthopoulos - Masahiro Tanaka is certainly a player that we the Blue Jays are interested in.

For those of you who don't know who this pitcher is, he has absolutely filthy stuff, all of the North American scouts are in love with him.

According to the New York Post's George A. King III the Yankees will be serious bidders along with the Red Sox, Rangers and Dodgers, I personally hope that the Blue Jays sign him, he will do wonders for the city and for baseball in Canada.

According to a book to be released in March, the New York Yankees third baseman enjoyed the company of prostitutes. So much, in fact, that he often hired them in pairs.

His antics apparently went on while he was dating Cameron Diaz.

The upcoming House of Outrageous Fortune, written by Michael Gross, centres on New York’s luxurious 15 Central Park West. A-Rod rented a $30,000-a-month apartment out of the luxury condo building in 2010, becoming neighbours with Sting, Denzel Washington, Jeff Gordon and other powerful folk.

The New York Post’s Page Six got its hands on some juicy excerpts about A-Rod:

A building worker told Gross, “He got hookers all the time. Usually two at a time, two times a week. One time he had two go up, they came down and left, and 10 minutes later, Cameron Diaz walks in.”

“Fifteen (Central Park West) became A-Rod’s home plate,” Gross writes, where the $275 million man scored with Madonna and Kate Hudson, as well as Diaz. “But apparently they weren’t enough for A-Rod.”

Though a broker called Rodriguez “the best tenant” in the book, the 15CPW staff didn’t agree.

“He was a douche, an unfriendly narcissist,” another building worker said. “I hate the guy. He thought he was God.”

A-Rod’s spokesman Ron Berkowitz told Page Six “This is a further effort to fabricate scandal around Alex. The allegations concerning prostitutes are categorically false.”

The Jays have named Kevin Seitzer has their new batting coach. He recently was with the Royals.

As for Josh Johnson, i'm not sure what they're going to do. Considering the free agent crop is very thin at pitching, they might decide to take a chance on him for one more season at $14 million.

Yesterday they picked up the options on Casey Janssen, Adam Lind & Mark DeRosa. They didn't pick up the option on Muni Kawasaki, but there's a good chance they'll offer him a minor league contract since he's a crowd favorite and extremely popular among the players.

Joe T, do you think the Yankees will make a play for Jacoby Ellesbury?

Joe T, do you think the Yankees will make a play for Jacoby Ellesbury?

You're asking the man who already has Giancarlo Stanton, Mike Trout and Michael Wacha already fitted out for pinstripes????

The simple answer, Doc, is no. The Yankees have a million needs. They need three starting pitchers, some bullpen help, certainly a set-up guy for Robertson, a catcher, a second baseman, a shortstop, maybe even a third baseman depending on how A-Rod's appeal turns out. They have three outfielders, albeit a washed up one in right field. Their best player is their centerfielder, Gardner. Why would they go after Ellsbury? Boras reported yesterday that he's already heard from 11 teams. You can bet the Yankees aren't on that list.

If they're serious about staying under the $177 million threshold, they're payroll flexibility is limited.

Ellesbury is a injury risk, 2 out of the last 4 years he has been injured, so I doubt that Cashman will go for him.

I am more excited about what the Blue Jays will do, John Gibbons has stated that the Blue Jays need to get younger and better, can you say TANAKA!!!!, or how about TANAKA and Santana, yikess!!!, it will be an interesting offseason.